Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of the dying to the young, so print and commerce and a thousand ways of communication may bind the civilizations together, and preserve for future cultures all that is of value for them in our own. Let us, before we die, gather up our heritage, and offer it to our children.